Currently training-how in the heck do you remember poses/asanas and transitioning from one to another?
I'm coming to the end of my teacher training about a month left 🥳 I'm excited and even have done some practice teaching and it went well.
My main road block in life right now is putting these positions in my memory bank and remembering how to transition in and out of them. For example my teacher the other day because I mentioned this said how would you get me from laying down to childs pose? I have taught childs pose, and variations on it, but as I'm looking at her body, my brain could not compute how to draw her back on her toes and extending her arms. Like my brain turned to tv static. I'm so used to teaching childs pose from table top it's like I couldn't think of how to describe it. I literally had to do the motion myself to know and express it, which is difficult with scripting and also keeping my teaching steady, and when I do positions I'm not good at speaking, at least not yet in my teaching practice.
This means I'm really stuck on scripts and not good at spontaneity or adjusting if something doesn't work for the class and I don't want that. I want to be able to adapt if students need it or just shake things up from time to time.
I also have a hard time remembering poses. What does Google even mean that there are like 8 million variations? How the heck do you even memorize basic poses so you can try new things?
I'm doing teaching observing the next few weeks and I hope it helps but if anyone has advice please let me know; I'm feeling a bit panicky at the moment. I know asanas is one of the 8 limbs and it's the one I struggle with the most; from doing to teaching.